Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

By Kyle Brown , COO at DonateStock – a fundraising platform that makes stock gifting to nonprofits easy and accessible. DonateStock has ignited a conversation in philanthropy with their innovative approach to stock gifting. Why Stock Gifting? Donors can deduct the fair-market value of the gifted stock on tax returns.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Did you know that a lot of nonprofit organizations raise 30%, sometimes as much as 50% of their annual donations during the year-end giving season ? Most nonprofits bring in nearly half of their online donations in the last week of the year. December 31st reigns supreme , with 31% of donations coming in that day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2022

Several years ago, when Steve Latham wanted to make a donation to his alma mater, a financial advisor recommended donating appreciated stock instead of cash. The concept was a win-win: By donating stock, Latham could realize a tax advantage , enabling him to make a larger donation and increase the benefit to the school.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 15, 2025

After someone passes away, their family members and friends might be motivated to donate to a nonprofit organization in their honor. Memorial donations are a beautiful way to honor someones life and carry on a positive legacy. That means your nonprofit must create a dedicated strategy for managing and acknowledging memorial donations.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A digital impact report is an amalgamation of components demonstrating your organization’s impact – all your very best evidence of the ways in which you are changing lives for the better. Here are five ways to use your digital impact report as a marketing tool: 1.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

This negligence means youre letting potential donations slip away without even realizing it. Theyre hosting engaging events in the living room and closing major gifts on the patioall while your team remains stuck in the kitchen, struggling with basic functions. Have you noticed how clunky software costs nonprofits donations?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 27, 2023

Recurring giving is when a donor makes regular, ongoing donations to your nonprofit. These consistent gifts, known as recurring donations, help your organization’s long-term fundraising success and retention goals. The Right Tools to Accept Recurring Donations Online Ready to start accepting recurring donations?

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Neon CRM

MARCH 27, 2025

Donation receipts are important for a few reasons. The IRS requires nonprofits to send receipts for any charitable gift over $250, and we all know how critical it is to keep the IRS happy. But donors often expect receipts for gifts of any amount, and keeping them happy is a key part of inspiring them to give again.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 7, 2025

Matching gift opportunities can double or even triple the donations you receive at the end of the year. We often see these during Giving Tuesday or year-end campaigns, but have you considered how matching gifts can accelerate your campaigns year-round? Lets look at the many benefits matching gifts can bring your organization.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Donation tax receipts allow you to confirm that youve processed and implemented a charitable contribution while expressing appreciation for donors gifts. While donation receipts must follow several standards, well provide tips for customizing your receipts to recognize different donor groups’ individual contributions.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s a good strategy to include your impact report with your appeal mailing: Dear Charity Clairity, We have started mailing quarterly impact reports to those midlevel and major donors who aren’t emailable, and emailing otherwise.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Tribute and honorary gifts , made in honor or in memory of someone who is not a donor, are a great way for nonprofit organizations to raise awareness and funds while honoring an individual, either in memoriam or celebration. In fact, according to the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report , 33% of donors give tribute gifts to family and friends.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Employer matching gifts offer key advantages to nonprofit organizations, including increased individual donations, opportunities for additional corporate funding, improved supporter engagement, and more. If youre wondering if corporate matching gifts can boost donor retention levels, the answer is yes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2022

By Allan Torres , Digital Marketing Specialist at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Modal donation forms feel modern and showcase the simplicity of the minimal-step process right away.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Donor retention on steroids – Make it monthly I implore you to make soliciting recurring donations a priority. In fact, the average annual value of a recurring gift is 10.3 times higher than the value of the average one-time gift! And, if you do attempt to convert, your best window is within 30 days of the initial gift.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2025

For example, consider the differing expectations of: New donors: First-time donors likely dont know much about your organization or how to engage with it beyond donating. Steward recurring donors by sharing regular impact updates and reminding them why they give.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

GuideStar reports that new donors who receive a thank you within 48 hours of donating are four times more likely to give to your organization again. Also, remind donors who they’ve helped with their donation and how they make your mission possible. 4) Week Three: Give An Impact Update. Share a Video of Giving Tuesday Impact.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

According to a recent report from the Blackbaud Institute , 72% of spontaneous gifts went to organizations with whom the donors were already familiar. Read on to learn more about who these first-time spontaneous donors are, and how to turn their GivingTuesday gifts into lasting support.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

Not only are Instagram Stories the must-use feature for individuals, brands, and organizations going into 2020, Facebook (Instagram’s owner) recently added the ability for 501c3 nonprofits to capture donations directly inside Stories! . Add the Donation Sticker when you go live so that people can give when they feel most inspired. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

What was our average gift amount? October Collect testimonials, impact stories, videos, and pictures and use them to write ‘reporting back’ stewardship emails, postcards, texts, thank-a-thon phone scripts, or letters. Include a short story celebrating the donor and their impact on your mission. Set campaign goals.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Quick Definition Online fundraising is the process of raising donations for a cause, project, or organization through digital platforms such as websites, social media apps, and email campaigns. How Do Organizations Collect Donations Online? And a well-designed donation page is key. It’s also how donors prefer to support.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 20, 2025

We made it through 2024, and with it the final push for year-end donations. You might be asking why you need to put a ton of time and energy into bringing your donors back for a second donation. It costs 200-300% more to attract new donors than it does to get a second gift. Youre saving money by improving your donor retention.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

have been cast, nonprofit organizations should be prepared for a new wave of donations from voters whose candidate (or candidates) did not win. Post-election rage giving: +57.55% increase in gifts to nonprofits associated with the opposite political ideology of the winning presidential candidate -2.9%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2) Write and distribute quarterly Impact Reports. . According to the Fidelity Charitable Overcoming Barriers to Giving Report , 65% of donors would give more if they knew the impact of their donations. Why Quarterly Impact Reports? Quarterly Impact Reports enhance your website, email, and social media content strategy.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As year-end approaches, it's even more important that you’re focusing your energy in the most impactful places. So, here are eight more tips that will help you prioritize, focus, and create space to make sure you’re taken care of and end your year strong.

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Candid

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Whether as a flash point response to a crisis, natural disaster, or an election, one-time, smaller donations are becoming commonplace. The language of your online donation forms, scripting, print materials, and any other content should center this language. Make it easy to giveor you risk your supporters abandoning their donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

By Korrin Bishop , writer at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Reviewing their activity wall of donations to personally thank donors. Respond personally to new donation activity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2023

As the world becomes increasingly more digital, nonprofits around the globe are recognizing the importance of accepting online donations as a form of giving. Online giving can provide numerous benefits for nonprofits, from increasing donation amounts to improving donor engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

The good news is that once you embrace digital donor engagement tools, most of the grunt work – like donation forms and gift acknowledgements – is done for you through automation. Secure a major donor for a matching gift campaign. Small, one-time donations can seem transactional, and that’s not how donors want to feel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

For those that prefer to donate money as gifts, consider purchasing a charity gift card from TisBest.org or GlobalGiving.org. Audubon Marketplace gifts are unique and play an important role in protecting our birds and butterflies. Perfect gifts for the nonprofit techie! Jude Gift Shop :: giftshop.stjude.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

Water.org ’s approach to empowering people with safe water and sanitation delivers on long-term impact expectations and makes it convenient for donors to create the change they wish to see in the world. Water.org’s monthly donors are a powerful driver of long-term change and scale because their sustaining gifts create sustainable solutions.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The data speaks for itselfaccording to the M+R Benchmarks 2024 report : Of desktop users who made their way to a nonprofits main donation page, only 16% completed a gift. For mobile users, the primary donation page conversion rate was just 10%. Make it easy for supporters to complete their donations.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

That’s why we’ve put together a list of fundraising tools that can help you boost donations, streamline your processes, and engage your supporters in new and exciting ways. Donation Counter One of the best ways to create excitement during your campaign is with a donation counter.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A donation page is like your nonprofits digital giving hubits the place where supporters can easily contribute and feel connected to your mission. Having a dedicated donation page ensures that giving is simple, accessible, and distraction-free. Clean Water For The Worlds optimized donation page hosted on their website with CauseVox.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Major Gifts. One-time and unexpected donations are great, but recurring donations allow a nonprofit to rely on consistency when it comes to individual contributions. There are two types of recurring giving: Monthly Giving Programs and Donation Pledges. This type of donation is similar to streaming services like Netflix.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Except, there aren’t many donations coming through. Donation page conversion rate: This data point represents the total number of donations you received divided by the number of donation pages, multiplied by 100. But there are also many factors outside the email that can impact whether or not someone clicks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. 1) Implement Donation Page Best Practices.

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